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CologneOFF is a mobil film & video festival which is organised simultaneously online and offline via physical screenings & cooperations.

The launch of a new edition of CologneOFF is planned once a year during the period October-December with changing subjects and themes.
The programs of all realized festival editions remain online for permanent. CologneOFF will expand continuously and represent a unique source for videoart on the net this way.

Until 2009 four festival editions have been realized

CologneOFF I – “Identityscapes”
CologneOFF II – “Image vs Music”
CologneOFF III – “Toon! Toon! – art cartoons and animated narratives”
CologneOFF IV – “Here We Are!”
CologneOFF V – Taboo! Taboo?
CologneOFF VI – Let’s Celebrate
CologneOFF VII – Art & the City

Festival manifestations were held in cooperation with following partners

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2012
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CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context.
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Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Minsk – 16-18 January 2012
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival – 1 Feb. 2012
CeC – Carnival of eCreativity – 24-26 Februray 2012
Generation Loss Festival Manila – 14-30 March 2012
International Short Film Festival Prokuplje/Serbia – 13 March 2012
Anemic:Festival of Independent Film & New Media Prague – 20 Mar 2012
FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Coimbra/Pt – 14-28 April 2012
8th Festival Internacional de la Imagen Manizales/Co- 16-20 Apr 2012
ARTchSo Video Festival Rennes – 26 April – 9 May 2012
Athens International Video Art Festival – May 2012
Urban Culture and Fire Festival Minsk – 18-20 May 2012
One Shot – International Film Festival – May 2012
A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 1-30 JUne 2012
Now & After Festival Moscow – Museum of Contemporary Art- 3 June 2012
CologneOFF @ Polytechnical University Valencia – 21-26 June 2012
Fundacion FIART @ Electrocuciones Madrid/Spain – 5 July 2012
Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata – 5-7 July 2012
A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012 – 12-15 July 2012
VideoBabel Festival Cusco/Peru – 18 July 2012
Linoleum Animation & Media Art Festival Moscow – 10 July–09 Sept 2012
Ares Film & Media Festival Siracusa/Italy – July/August 2012
National Cinematheque Quito – 24 August 2012
XI International Kansk Video Festival – 17-25 August 2012
Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Video Festival 2012 – 16- 19 Aug 2012
Busho – Budapest Short Film Festival – 4-9 September 2012
Ionian International Digital Film Festival – September 2012
art:screen Festival Orebro/Sweden – 4-7 October 2012
Fine Arts Film Festival Szolnok/Hungary – 11-14 OctoberOctober 2012
Warsaw Jewish Film Festival – Shoah Film Collection – 25-30 Oct 2012
ExTeresa Art Actual Mexico City/MX – 18 & 19 October 2012
Anima – Intern. Animation Festival Banja Luka/Bosnia -23-28 Oct 2012
FIVA – Videoart Festival Buenos Aires -5-7 November 2012
EuroShorts Film Festival Gdansk/Poland – 21-25 November 2012
Digital Marrakesh Festival – December
Proyector Videoart Festival Madrid – 14-23 December

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2011

CologneOFF 2011 – videoart in a global context.

  • 26 Jan – 6 Feb Rotterdam – International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • 10 February – Finland (I) – Arctic & Famous Film Festival Jyväskylä
  • 11 Feb – 31 March – Finland (II) – Keuruu Art Museum
  • 19-21 Feb – CologneOFF 2011 India- Carnival of e-Kreativity Sattal
  • 12-15 March – UKRAINE (I) – Goethe Institute, CCA Kiev
  • 16-20 March – UKRAINE (II) – City Art Gallery Kharkiv
  • 18 March – 1 April Rennes (F) – ARTchSO Video Festival
  • 30 March – 2 April ARAD (Ro) – Arad Art Museum
  • 11-17 April –Timisoara (I) (Ro) – Cafekultour Festival
  • 4-8 May – Timisoara (II) (Ro) – Timisoara Short Film Fest
  • 12-15 May Vientiane (Laos) – 2nd Vientinane Int Film Festival
  • 17-24 May Yerewan (Armenia) – Int Filmfestival Yerewan
  • 12-14 May Baltic Sea (I) -Szczecin (Pl) – Szczecin 2016
  • 19-22 May Baltic Sea (II) – St. Petersburg (Ru) – ProArte / NCCA/Smolny
  • 18-22 May Greece (I) – Athens (Gr) – Athens Video Art Festival
  • 26-27-28 May Baltic Sea (III) – Tampere/Fi – Galleria Rajatilla, Arteles
  • 1-2 June – Baltic Sea (IV)– Tallinn .- Estonian Academy of Arts
  • 11-17 July – Madrid – Projector Videoart Festival Madrid
  • .7-9 July – CologneOFF 2011 Greece (II) – Kalamata Videoart Festival Miden
  • 11-17 July 2011 – CologneOFF 2011 Madrid @ Proyector Festival 2011
  • 30 August- 3 September – CologneOFF 2011 Beirut/Lebanon @ Shams The Sunflower Art Centre
  • 1-5 September – BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival (Hu)
  • 8-10 September – CologneOFF 2011 Baltic Sea V – Riga (Lat) @ Waterpieces Contemporary Art & Video Festival
  • 21-23 October – CologneOFF 2011 Rome – @ Arte Video Rome Festival
  • 22-23 October – CologneOFF 2011 Gdansk – @InOut Festival – Laznia – Contemporary Art Centre Gdansk/Pl
  • 10-11 November – CologneOFF 2011 Mexico I – @ ExTeresa Arte Actual
  • 14-18 November – CologneOFF 2011 Mexico II – @ Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
  • 25 Nov – 2 Dec – CologneOFF 2011 Cuba – @ International Videoart Festival Camaguey
  • 8 December CologneOFF 2011 Mexico III – @ Centro de las Artes San Luis Potosi
  • 13-15 Dec – CologneOFF 2011 Morocco- @ Digital Marrakech 2011
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    2010
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  • Dehli International Arts Festival – New Dehli/India – 11-12 December 2010
  • Simultan Festival – Timisoara/Romania – 30 Sept – 3 October 2010
  • BuSho – Budapest International Shortfilm Festival 1-5 September 2010
  • AllArtNow International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria – 25-30 May 2010 – CologneOFF V
  • Fonlad – Digital Art Festival – 15-28 May Coimbra/PT – CologneOFF V
  • One Shot – International Shortfilm Festival Yerewan/Armenia
    17-24 May 2010 – CologneOFF V
  • Athens Video Art Festival – 7-9 May 2010 – CologneOFF V
  • Oslo Screen Festival – 12-14 March 2010 – CologneOFF V
  • CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity New Dehli/India
    19 February – 21 February 2010 – CologneOFF V
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    2009

  • Rauland Kunstforening & Art Video Exchange Norway – CologneOFF IV
    30 December 2009
  • MICROWAVE – New Media Arts Festival Hong Kong – 13 Nov – 11 dec 2009 – CologneOFF V
  • FONLAD – Digital Art Festival Guarda/Pt – 14 Nov’09 – 03 Jan ’10 – CologneOFF V
  • Videoart Festival Maracaibo/Ve – 7-8 October 2009 – The best of COFF
  • OK Video festival national Gallery Jakarta/indonesia – 28 Juli – 9 Aug 2009 CologneOFF – Special selection “Comedy”
  • Videoart Festival Miden Kalamata/Greece – 10-12 July 2009
  • Image Contre Nature – Experimental Film Festival Marseille/F – 7-11 July 2009
  • Crosstalk Video Art Festival Budapest/HU – 23-27 June 2009
  • MUV – Music and Digital Art Festival Florence/Italy – 14-17 June 2009
  • 7th International Film Festival Yerewan 2009 – 17-24 May 2009
  • Goethe Institute Rabat/Morocco Nuit Blanche 2 April 2009
  • 700IS Reindeer Film Festival/ Iceland- 27-28 March 2009
  • Videoformes – int. Festival Video & New Media Clermont-Ferrand/F 11-28 March 2009
  • CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity New Dehli/India
    27 February – 1 March 2009
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    2008

  • Optica Video Festival & Sala Lai Gijon/Spain – 8-14 November 2008
  • 24h of Nuremberg Film Festival Nuremberg/GE – 7/8 November 2008
  • 8th International Meeting of Intell & Artists Caracas/VE – 13-18 Oct 2008
  • Museum of Contemporary Art MACZUL Maracaibo/VE – 2-9 October 2008
  • AZA – Digital Cinema Festival Thessaloniki/GR – 25-28 September 2008
  • BuSho – Budapest Shortfilm Festival 2008 – 5-7 September 2008
  • Yeosu International Art Festival (Yeosu/South Korea) – 30/08 – 20/09 2008
  • Videofestival Celje (Slovenia) – 2-6 July 2008
  • Athens Video Art Festival (Greece) 11-13 April 2008
  • French Cultural Centre André Maraux Sarajevo/Bosnia-Hercegovina – 8-21 March
  • 3rd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India -11-13 Feb
  • Les Inattendus – film festival Lyon/France – 21-27 January
    (special selection CologneOFF I)
  • Videoart on Kinolevchuk Lviv/Ukraine – 12 January
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    2007

  • 3rd International Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina – 15-17 Nov
  • 24 Hours of Nuremberg – 10/11 November 2007 Nuremberg/Germany
  • 6th Digital Art Festival Maracaibo/Venezuela – 7-17 Oct
  • 1st Digital Art Festival Bahia Blanca/Argentina 13-14 Sept
  • VIP Art Gallery Belgrade/Serbia – 19 Nov
  • Mobile Institute Brussels/Belgium – 24 AUg
  • ENTER Caravansarai Festival Istanbul/Turkey 29/30 June
  • Dutch Electronic Art Festival – unDEAF – Rotterdam/NL 15 April
  • 2nd CeC & CaC – India International Centre New Dehli/India 11/12 Feb
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    2006

  • PI 5 InterMedia Festival National Museum Szczecin/Poland – 20-22 Oct
  • 2nd Festival International Arte Digital Rosario/Argentina – 16-18 Nov
  • Chroma – Festival de Arte Audiovisual Guadalajara/Mexico – 11-17 Nov